I don’t know why. Can’t stand the stuff. But have at it … Carter Family or Garth Brooks? Hank Senior, Hank Junior or Hank III? Faith Hill or Shania Twain — and while we’re on the subject sound on or sound off?
And where does Lyle Lovett fit in to all this?
As opposed to 28 Days Later, which was better. Spoiler alert!
It’s a really interesting book. The Times’ review speculates that the direction of the book changed mid-stream, and I can see that. The really “hot” years of the cold war are skipped through very quickly. But the sections on Chernobyl are really harrowing. Some of this detail has been published elsewhere, but Rhodes puts it [...]
Flipping through tomorrow’s New York Times Book Review I see reviews of two books that are, uh, less-than-recent. Richard Rhodes’ “Arsenals of Folly,” which I touched on briefly here close to four weeks ago, and John Dean’s “Broken Government,” which has already got a thick layer of dust on it wherever it is I set [...]
Finished Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism” the other week. It’s a scary take on what the neo-con future of economics looks like.
Much more after the jump. Updated: shockdoctrine.org is another good source.
That wacky duo Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. If you liked “Sin City” you’ll love this one.
The first part of the “Grindhouse” double-feature, it’s a way-over-the-top hommage to a certain kind of splattery horror-science-fiction-zombie genre that was coming soon to a drive-in near you back in the ’70s, Planet Terror has a plot too [...]
I envisioned headlines like, “Lifelong Indians Fan Found In Pool Of Blood.” But Anthony Cartouche is back blogging, with a top-10 list of reasons why he hasn’t been posting — and grist for this blog so I don’t have to come up with reasons of my own anymore. Welcome back, A.C.
But really, I’ve got [...]
From the last Broadway Bach Ensemble concert, here’s the Mozart “Linz” Symphony. Put it on your iPod, or click on the gizmos after the jump to listen.
I. Adagio - Allegro Spiritoso
II. Andante
III. Menuetto
IV. Presto
We’re popping champagne corks again here at tom-mcgee.com world headquarters (ouch! watch where you’re pointing that!) as a new site launches for Teall & Associates.
Nothing fancy here; in fact the client direction was to do exactly the opposite. Jon is running a PR agency targeting major financial firms, so he wanted something really [...]
I’m not even done reading Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race yet, but it looks like Richard Rhodes has hit another home run. I was totally blown away, so to speak, by the chapter “Looking Over The Horizon” last night. It’s a minute-by-minute account of the Reykjavic summit of 1986, when [...]
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